my flash ride

hey y'all,

About a week ago I posted the happy news that I'd finally picked up a
bike.
I've been fanging around sydney on my Spada ever since and I'm o so
loving it.

Just wondering if anyone out there's got a copy of the Spada workshop
manual..
I dropped the oil and coolant the other day and it was scary... the
filter was messed up.
Want to check valve clearances and camchain tensioners, synchronise
carbs, have a general fiddle etc- so a manual would be very
reassuring!

Also I've done only ~10km since my oil and filter change and the oil
is very dark already. Is this normal or am i experiencing HELLA
blowby/oil toastage.
It isn't smoking at all and it pulls fine...

Iain Chalmers you out there?
did you say 150,000?????
Man like you sure would have accumulated some Spada wisdom by now!!

Yeah any help would be great,

btw the site users.totalise.co.uk/~spada seems to have lost most of
the pdf manual i hear was once available there.

Cheers,

Chris

In article <fb17fee3.0405021828.61345cc6 RemoveThis @posting.google.com>,
c.dean RemoveThis @student.unsw.edu.au (Chris) wrote:

 > Just wondering if anyone out there's got a copy of the Spada workshop
 > manual..

Yep, there's about 27 meg worth of pdfs - I could burn them onto a cd
for you if you like?

 > I dropped the oil and coolant the other day and it was scary... the
 > filter was messed up.
 > Want to check valve clearances and camchain tensioners, synchronise
 > carbs, have a general fiddle etc- so a manual would be very
 > reassuring!

Valve clearances are easy. They're screw and locknut type adjustment so
there's no shims to measure and swap. The manual says 6 thou on the
inlets an 8 thou on the exhausts (both +-0.8thou)

Cam chain I got done on the original motor at about 70,000km, but I
killed that motor at a track day at around 120,000km, and I was just
thinking about doing them again myself on the replacememnt motor
(10,000km old when I got it, according to Metros) when it became
unneccessary

Syncing carbs is something I never bothered doing myself - any workshop
has a set of guages and if thats all you ask them to do they only charge
you $20 or so... (It is worth getting done though, having it set right
makes a big difference in how smoothly it'll go from closed to open
throttle, it's _much_ nicer to ride when its synced up properly)

 >
 > Also I've done only ~10km since my oil and filter change and the oil
 > is very dark already. Is this normal or am i experiencing HELLA
 > blowby/oil toastage.
 > It isn't smoking at all and it pulls fine...

Thats pretty normal. There's about 500ml of old oil still in the motor
when you drain it and take the filter off. You mix that with the 2L of
new oil and it stops being that nice new-oil honey colour pretty
quickly... (the manual says "Oil Capacity: 1.8L at draining, 2.0L at oil
filter change, 2.5L at disassembly")
 >
 > Iain Chalmers you out there?
 > did you say 150,000?????

Yeah, it had 40,000 on it when I got it, and 190,000 when it got run
over...

 > Man like you sure would have accumulated some Spada wisdom by now!!

I like to think so...

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